Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern

Projects

Here you can find the different projects BopCo is involved in, including the type of policy concern, collaborators, related publications, and generated data. BopCo is constantly looking for partnerships with other taxonomic experts, research teams, governmental agencies, etc. If you are interested in collaborating with BopCo or just want more information on potential joint projects, please do not hesitate to contact BopCo.

Invasive African clawed frog or Xenopus laevis, By David J Stang [CC BY SA 4.0]

Detecting the invasive African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) using environmental DNA (eDNA) from aquatic samples

Policy concern: invasive alien species

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Bipalium_kewense_By Jean-Lou Justine​, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, and Jessica Thévenot - (2018). "Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories". PeerJ 6: e4672. DOI:10.7717/peerj.4672. ISSN 2167-8359., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69500946

Identifying invasive land planarians by DNA-barcoding using currently available sequence data

Policy concern: invasive alien species

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Invasive Asian hornet or Vespa velutina, by Danel Solabarrieta CC-BY-SA-2.0

Identifying invasive alien species by DNA-barcoding using currently available sequence data

Policy concern: invasive alien species

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Forensically important rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Belgium

Barcoding forensically important rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Belgium

Policy concern: forensics

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Foreign deployment sites of the Belgian armed forces

Investigating mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) diversity from foreign deployment sites of the Belgian armed forces 

Policy concern: public health

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Gastropod from Greece, Eobania vermiculata by Ferran Turmo Gort [CC BY NC SA 2.0]

Identifying gastropods of parasitological concern for pets in Greece

Policy concern: public health, disease vector, parasites

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Wild meat at a local market, by Erik Verheyen (RBINS°

Exploring the wild meat market in Brussels

Policy concern: public health, endangered species, food security and traceability

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Mediterranean fruit fly By Antoine Franck, CIRAD [CC BY 3.0]

DNA barcoding of (African) fruit flies of agricultural importance

Policy concern: pest species

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Exotic mosquito Aedes japonicus by AV (c) RBINS

MEMO: Monitoring of exotic mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Belgium 

Policy concern: public health, invasive alien species

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Morphological analysis of a bird involved in collision with an aircraft

Bird strike species identification using DNA barcoding 

Policy concern: forensics, economic impact

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Seafood (molluscs) to be identified using DNA barcoding (c) RBINS

Authenticating fish and seafood products for sale on the Belgian market

Policy concern: food traceability, public health, biodiversity conservation

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Arion vulgaris By Malin Lange / Institute of Parasitology

DNA barcoding and identification of intermediate slug hosts in the framework of an epidemiological survey in Germany

Policy concern: public health, disease vector, parasites

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Exotic mosquito Aedes japonicus, by James Gathany, CDC

Population genetics of Aedes japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Belgium

Policy concern: public health, invasive alien species

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Forensically important fly from La Réunion, Fannia canicularis by Marcello Consolo CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED

A first DNA barcode library of the forensically important flies of La Réunion (France)

Policy concern: forensics

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Mosquito species from the Culex pipiens complex, Søborg, Denmark, 22 September 2018

Real-time PCR as discriminating tool between Culex pipiens s.l. and Culex torrentium (Diptera: Culicidae) species

Policy concern: public health, invasive alien species

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